Word: major
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that its militia system is all at sixes and sevens. On Wednesday the Twelfth New York Regiment was ordered to pass in review before Senator Wadsforth of New York, and an officer in the Carranza Army. For some reason the appearance of the regiment was unsatisfactory, so that Major-General O'Ryan ordered it to march past the reviewing stand a second time. An order of this kind is not altogether unusual, and not particularly noteworthy...
...what was the result of Major-General O'Ryan's order? A large group of officers of the Twelfth tendered their resignations, because they felt that they had been insulted. This act was startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases...
...Liszt, Concerto in A-major; No. 2 for pianoforte and orchestra...
...Liszt, Concerto in A-major; No. 2 for pianoforte and orchestra...
...Albert Spalding, violinist, and Mr. Alwin Schroeder, violoncellist, will assist Mr. Whiting this evening in the presentation of the following program: Sonata in C-minor, Op. 30 Violin and pianoforte. Beethoves Suite in G-major, Violoncello solo. Bach Trio in B-major, Op. 8 (revised edition) Brahms Violin, violoncello, pianoforte...